Ministers working with the National Archives found the extra legal text, which takes the grand total of retained EU law on the UK statute book to 3,800 laws rather than 2,400. 

 

Thousands of EU laws were transposed into UK law, with often only minimal changes, when Brexit took legal effect at 11pm on December 31. The move prevented legal gaps in a wide range of regulations after Brexit.  

 

The Government wants to have revised or repealed all those laws by the end of 2023. 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/brexit-blow-as-ministers-find-1400-extra-eu-laws-to-repeal/ar-AA13RBjp

6 minutes ago, Scott said:

The Government wants to have revised or repealed all those laws by the end of 2023. 

Yeah…good luck with that. 

Rees Mogg, the architect of this idiot idea, is no longer in government.

 

Sunak will kick it into the long grass.